Character Education

I wanted to share how my character education board and program are working so far this year.  This first picture is of my bulletin board.  I have it on the main board in my classroom, right in front of them all day long.  I change my thought of the week poster each week to match my character trait of the week.  The Character Traits of the Week came from Lisa Richling.



 

 

Here is the bulletin board.

 

I like to use table points to reward good behaviors.  Instead of using a points board or part of my chalkboard to record points, I decided to use warm fuzzies.  I have these cute little buckets on each group.  When someone in the group is following class expectations, I tell them they deserve a warm fuzzy from me (boy do my third graders smile from ear to ear when they get to add a warm fuzzy to their bucket each time)!  At the end of the day we do a "Warm Fuzzy Count". 

The group that earned the most warm fuzzies throughout the day gets a red strip in their pocket.  The group with the most red strips at the end of the week gets a bunch on their behavior card.  Once their behavior card is full of punches, they will earn a reward scratch off ticket.

 

Here are the pockets for each group.  I am amazed how well this is working out.  My students nag me remind me at the end of each day if I don't remember to do the warm fuzzy count.  It is really working out well, and I love hearing my class talking about warm fuzzies!!!  :)

 

Bucket Filling Freebie

My favorite activity the week was when I read Have you Filled Your Bucket.

I know a lot of people read that story, but I really was looking for a different one to read.  I couldn't find one in my library, so I read this one.  Anyone have a different bucket filler book?

Anyways...I read it to my class.  Then we made a chart showing bucket fillers vs. bucket dippers.  I love making charts with this class already!

I then explained this bucket filler form.  I have a box from Really Good Stuff that is called a compliment box.  I just decided to use that for my class bucket since it had positive words all over it.  I explained to the class that they needed to be sneaky and catch other students being bucket fillers.  Then they would fill out the form and put it in the box.



Friday we read a few that were in the box.  The smiles on those faces were priceless.  I have a punch card for each student.  I am using the one called Frequently Fabulous from this set by Creative Teaching Press.  Every time they receive a compliment in the box, I will punch the card.  When they fill it up, they will earn a prize.

They LOVED it.  I've done bucket filling before, but never the punch cards and sharing them with the class.  This is now a permanent part of my Friday afternoons.

If you are interested, click on the picture below to get my bucket filling sheet the children fill out for each other.

Happy Bucket Filling Everyone!